Education
B.S. Ecology, Conservation Biology. Evergreen College, Olympia, WA. 2000-2004
M.S. student, Department of Geography. Virginia Tech. 2007-2009
PhD student, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech, Present
Career and Academic Interests
I am a field researcher at heart with a strong motivation for the conservation of Earth’s biodiversity. My academic interests involve Remote Sensing, phenology, biogeography, and GIS. Past research has focused in the lowland rainforest of Peru, the South African high veld, and the central and northern Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada.
Research or Teaching Activities
GTA- Biology Fall 2007
GRA- Center for Geospatial Information Technology Spring and Summer 2008
GRA- Dr. Kirsten de Beurs 2008- 2009
Research Project Title and Description
"Patterns of the Spring Phenology of National Parks throughout the Contiguous United States from 2000-2011."
Advisor* and Committee
Kirsten deBeurs
